61% of travelers now say they’d rather stay in paid lodging than on that Murphy Bed or inflatable mattress

And to think, it only took those NYC TV executives 50 years to figure out the rest of the country was hungry for their own time in the spotlight.

To paraphrase the Capital One spots, what will you be dropping this New Year’s Eve?

I guess the lesson here is, when you see a campaign get flamed, wait a few years and try it again.

As the CMO of Connecticut Tourism said, “Our goal was never just to market pizza, it was to ignite a movement. We took something humble and universal, pizza, and turned it into an invitation to see Connecticut differently.”

A funny thing happened. Voters said “no” to taxing visitors in a number of those communities. The light bulb has begun to flicker on. Sophistication as to the delicate balance of tourism and quality of life is beginning to be realized in some of these communities.

News from the Trump Administration’s Department of Transportation last week announced a new campaign intended to bringing civility back to the friendly skies.

Now that Congress has quit screwing around with the shutdown and the Epstein Files, it’s time to get back to work. And back to work they went on Wednesday by introducing the VISIT USA Act, an attempt to restore the boneheaded cuts to this nation’s Destination Marketing Organization, Brand USA.

The blog platform we've used since 2006 has announced they will be going dark at the end of this month...taking with them all 4,200 posts and the over 3,000 comments that some of you have offered over the years. Kaput, gone...vanished.

Remember when Marketing pundits declared Direct Mail to be dead? Except research was actually showing that Gen Z consumers were still finding value in the messages. The rationale?

Americans are eating out more, if reservations on OpenTable are an indicator. Those reservations are up 12%.

But not in DC.

An op-ed piece in USA Today suggests that Destination DC's Elliott Ferguson has the worst job in Tourism (at least today). The President has sent in the National Guard and has called the city "a nightmare of murder and crime."

Most Americans who consume news about the economy have heard expert after expert quote how much tourism trade we've lost since the President suggested that Canada should be America's 51st State.

When the Wisconsin Tourism industry was arguing to establish a Labor Day School Start, the lobbyist for the School Administrators attempted to assert that it was hotter in June and cooler in August.

In China, daytime temperatures in some regions have become so stifling that consumers are driving a significant boon in evening tourism and visitor spending.

The lack of affordable transportation is one of the primary reasons that capable workers don't bother to apply for the jobs that are so desperately needed in the service industry.

While most States posted nice gains, Colorado Tourism rose only 0.3% last year. Was it another self-inflicted wound?

I was going through old journals over the weekend, attempting to declutter my office, and came upon this gem from a conference I attended in 2018.

Connecticut Tourism has recently launched a campaign suggesting that their pizza is superior to New York City’s.

You're charged with promoting a small town with limited assets. You have to identify (or create) a hook that resonates.